id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
21899,Missing class identifier for password protected posts,mdgl,,"Password protected posts are insufficiently identified for good CSS styling.

Presently, the class name ""post-password-required"" is added to protected posts if a valid password cannot be found in the cookie. On the other hand, no special class name is added to protected posts if a valid password *can* be found, even though this is just a temporary condition until the cookie expires.

I suggest that both cases are interesting from a CSS styling perspective. Note that the title of protected posts is prefixed by the string ""Protected:"" in both situations.

This behaviour occurs because get_post_class() just checks post_password_required() [which validates the cookie] but get_the_title() just checks if the $post->post_password field is not empty.

I suggest an additional class name should be added by get_post_class() for the case when the post->post_password field is not empty. Current usage of class names here is not very consistent with the admin tool, so options might be ""visibility-protected"", ""status-protected"" [similar to ""status-private"" which is added for those with visibility ""Private"" and reflecting the underlying implementation] or perhaps just simply ""protected"".

Protected posts would thus be identified as follows:

  Protected, with correct password: class=""protected""[[BR]]
  Protected, missing or invalid password: class=""protected post-password-required""

See also #13860 and #18729. I can do a patch if needed but this is literally just a couple of lines of code (three if you include a comment).",enhancement,new,normal,Awaiting Review,Template,3.4.2,normal,,,